Manifold sales-book.



PATENTBD DB0. 11, 19o6.

E. H, wINsLow. MANIFOLD SALES BooK. APPLIUATION -FILED AJAH-25. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

l HERBERTV H. WINSLOW, OF MOUNT TABOR,- OREGON, ASSIGNOR TO PACIFIC MANIFOLDING BOOK COMPANY, OF CARSON CITY, NE-

VADA, A CORPORATION OF NEVADA.

MANIFOLD SALES-366k..

Specification of Letters Patent.

vAppliatiu led January 25, 1906. Sel'il NO- 297'786.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

To all whom, it may concern:

l Be it known that I, HERBERT H. WINSLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Tabor, in the county of Multnomah and `State of Oregon, have invented new and useor cover part 5 to fold up over the opposite end of the pad and protect the face of t e pad. 5 5 Atransfer or carbon sheet 6 is pasted or otherwise secured 1n any suitable Vman nermo t e /flap 4 and is adapted normally tobe interful Improvements in Manifold Sales-Booka-/psl'between the first and second, or original.

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to manifold sales books and pads, and especially books and pads of the type employing continuous zigzag strips., These books are usually made by folding a continuous stri in zigzag formation with scorings at the fol s to permit a leaf to be readily detached from the pad. The folded strip is detachably secured by some suitable means at one end, together with the carbon or transfer sheet, to a cover to permit any number of connected leaves to be drawn off without necessarily severing them from the pad. The opposite end of the pad is connected permanently to the cover in such fashion as to prevent the accidental disengagement of the pad from the cover, yet at the same time to permit the withdrawal and separation of one or more leaves without mutilating the leaf or leaves so withdrawn or detached.

The present invention has particularly to do with certain novel and economical means for fastening the leaves of a pad ltogether in such fashion as not to interfere with the successive removal of the leaves of the pad, and which fastening means will have no sharp points for the operator to hurt his hand on.

The invention consists of the parts, and the construction and the combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed,

havingreference to the accompanying drawigure 1 is a perspective view of a book, showing my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent a side elevation in section showing modifications thereof.

A represents a pad of usual construction,

printed paper folded in zigzag fashion. The pad may be secured to' andp'rotected by a cover of any ap ropriate form, material, or construction. employ in practice a strip of tough flexible paper with a back portion 2, which may be reinforced by a suitable stiffening-piece 3. The strip 2 has a short frap 4 at one end to fold up over and protect the head or upper end of the pad and has a longer iiap and duplicate, leaves of the pad. 6c My invention resides, essentially, in the means for attachin one or both ends of the pad to the cover an back, where a cover or a cover and back are used or for holding the various leaf-sections of the pad together in such manner that successive leaves may be l withdrawn and detached without disturbing the remainder of the ad. '.f

In Fig. 3 I have s own the invention applied to both ends of the pad. In Fig. l1' I 7o have shown the invention ap lied onl to one end of the ad, the other end) or hea of the pad being etachably held to the coverand under the ila 4 by a rubber band 7, which encircles the ead and is held in lace by en- 7 5 gagement in the lateral notches 8 1n the flap 4. The permanent fastening, above referred to, for the pad and cover or for the leaf-sections of the pad comprises one or' more brous, expandible material 9, passed through the cover and stilfening-piece 3 and-through the pad in the form of a stitch, said thread or twine or stitch being suitably anchored at the back of the cover or underneath the 'pad 8 5 to prevent its accidental pulling through the x pa when a leaf is torn off, said stitch also having an end protruding beyond the face of thepad and adapted to unravelor expand immediately at its point of emergence from 9 the pad in such manner as to form an enlarged head larger than the diameter of the hole in the paper through which the stitch passes. This stitch being fibrous and more or less rough naturally has a certain frictional contact with the edges of the sheet around the stitch to hold all the leaf-sections of the pad together; but what is of more importance here is that the frizzled or unraveled end of the stitch beyond the body of the 1 o pad offers a soft expanded cone-like head which will eifectually hold the leaf-sections in position against accidental disarrangement and, moreover, offers no sharp points, such as are offered by wire staples, for the operators hand to be caught on and injured Ireces of thread, twine, or like flexible, rough, 8o Y l or to tear` the overlapped flap of -the cover. l. drawal from the pad.,l and having a free fluffy I donot wish to be limited to the number of such softfeXpansible-stitchesthat I may employnnntozthe material lused', norto their; position on the pad, nor to their use to oneend only of the pad, nor to any particular means for anchoring the stitch to! the pad or cover. l through oneaor bothirends of the padand knotted`at the back, leaving half an inch, more or less, of the stitch projecting beyond the face ofthe pad to be unraveled and ii'ddout: The stitchmay" b'e passed operation; thebooks afterward. pulled apart aI sufli'cient space to allow the stitclror stitches to-'becut'betweeneach b'ook and one-end of eachivstitchr-for eachl zbookbeingl knotted or otherwise anchored'at the back with a suffi-I cient lngtl of 'free end for-unraveling and locking4 urposes at the front 4of the'pad. A stitch'l o rthis'sort 'cheapens manufacture; besides; itproducesa' book free from the obj ections of wire'or .other `metallic stitches.

Manifestly a' padfneed vnot'necessarily be maden of" a4- continuous zigzaggedly-folded strip, for the same principle is' applicable -to thehbld-.ifiigg together in :pad 4form of a bunch of loose leaves:y

1: padhavinggits `leaves fastened; together yan shappdmemb'er passed therethrough; the eXtrem-ities of said member being on theface side'of 'said pad and being of a softexpansible character.

2: A padfhavi'ng--its leaves fastened together'by'a soft expansible device passing through'th'e leaves ofthe pad and anchored atIthfe back of the pad,` and havin an expasible" head portion 'on the face si e'of the 3. A pad having its leaves held together by a thread 'ofsoftexpansibl material, said thread-suitably anchored' to prevent its with- A single stitch may be passed end operating as a head to prevent the accidental separation of the leaves of the padbut permitting theready intentional removal of successiva leaves..

4. padhaving its leaves held together by-a asten Jr of flexible expansible material, said fastener anchored at the back of the pad and having a contractible head portion .engaging the top sheet of the pad.

5. A pad. having its leaves held together by a fastener passing through coinciding perforations in the leaves, said fastener being of flexible fibrous material and having frictional contact with theedges of the leaves through which it passes, said fastener anchoredl to prevent its withdrawal from the pad, and having a free expansible end on the face side of the pad.

6. In a sales-book, a pad. a cover of flexible material having an end flapV to fold over the head of the pad, said end vflap having lateral notches, a carbon sheet secured .to said end flap, a ru J er l an seated inA said notches and encircling the head :of the pad and holding the latter detachably. to the cover; and a member having a soft-contractible head-on the face sideof the pad-saidmember being passed through thehopposite end ofthe padand vcover and ypermanently securing the pad to the cover-and permittingA the ready removal of successive'leaves of the pad.l

7. A pad having its leaves held together by a fastener passed through the leaves of the pad and provided with a soft contractible head engageable with the top sheet of the a p In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT Il. VVINSIOVV Wi tncsses t E. M. LEMCKE, FnnMoN'r Woon. 

